Ashlee Irene Rodrigues left us on July 14, 2006, while boating on Lake Shasta.
She was born Sept. 27, 1983, at Redbud Hospital in Clearlake.
Ashlee was raised on the McIntire Ranch in Kelseyville, which has been her family”s home for five generations. She enjoyed the homemade life on the ranch and was very innovative in finding mischievous ways to have fun with her friends.
She was active in 4-H where she raised lambs and swine; she loved animals.
She was a cheerleader, first for the Kelseyville Chiefs and then in High School as a Kelseyville Indian, where she had the privilege to perform at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Fla. She also performed at the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, numerous times at the East-West Shrine Games, as well as four occasions at the Sacramento Kings half-time events.
After she graduated from Kelseyville High School in 2001, she moved to Sacramento for college, then to work full time as a manager at a tanning salon and then as a design center administrative assistant.
Just recently, Ashlee returned to her home in Kelseyville, where she was making plans for what else the future might hold for her.
She leaves behind her parents, Jackie and Ted Rodrigues, sister, Makaila and brother, Nick, all of Kelseyville; Papa, Guy Starke; grandma, Shirley Cranston; aunts Linda (Mike) Fullerton and Maxine (Mike) Wilkinson; uncles, David (Carmen) Schultz, Terry Leary and Terry (Teresa) Rodrigues, as well as numerous cousins and other relatives.
Ashlee also will be missed by hundreds of friends and other family, many of whom joined together to celebrate her life at the Kelseyville High School on Saturday, Aug. 26.
She was preceded in death by her grandfather, Ted Rodrigues Sr.; grandma, Pat Starke; grandpa, Bob Schultz Jr.; aunt, Judy Leary and uncle, Ronnie Sarandi.
Her family will hold a private service for family members, to be held at a later date.
The family requests that in lieu of flowers, contributions to be made in memory of Ashlee to the Ashlee Rodrigues Memorial Scholarship Fund of the Umpqua Bank branches located at 4280 Main St. in Kelseyville or 805 11th St. in Lakeport.
(Published in the Lake County Record-Bee on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2006.)
